Bruno / Matt, Was more of a working idea, as I know that some Unix teams like to "lock down" the environment
Clearly there are some elements that need to be in place prior to the installation (such as PHP, PostgreSQL, etc) that require root - I guess the question is - if the core pre-reqs are in place - could the FOSSology install run as "non-root". It sounds like from Matt's other email this is possible, so its something I can try at home. From: Bruno Cornec <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Date: 02/18/2009 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [FOSSology] RPM Status (was:Re: RHEL5 Install Part 2) [email protected] said on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:26:39AM -0500: > Out of curiosity, is it possible for FOSSology to be installed with > non-root access? For RPMs no. For Fossology, looking at the requirements, would be very difficult (of cause you can deal with some sudo conf params) (I'm thinking to http/postgresql/...) > In some situations, users don't have full access to the underlying OS - so > being able to install as non-root is highly advantageous Then you have to install as well your own apache and postgresql instances to support that. You could use a VM with QEMU to do your tests, in which you'll have root access. Bruno. -- Linux Profession Lead EMEA / Open Source Ambassador \ EMEA CME SoL. Center http://www.mondorescue.org / HP/Intel Solution Center \ http://hpintelco.net Des infos sur Linux? http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://www.hp.com/linux La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org
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